Window screening, ceilings and closed eaves as sustainable ways to control malaria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Table 6 Comparison of total expenditure between different interventions

Type of intervention	Expenditure per person protected	Total expenditure for the population of the city
	US $	US $
Bed nets	2.6^a	1,831,304
Window screens	2.3^b	5,182,527
Ceilings	31.9^c	42,069,559

Expenditure per person = Cost of intervention/Number of people protected.
Expenditure for the city = Cost per person × Population size (The population size used was approximately 2,700,000 inhabitants of Dar es Salaam city × Mean coverage of the intervention.
^a The cost of insecticide treated bed nets at the time when this study was carried out was TShs. 6000, at the exchange rate of US $ TShs. 1150 per US $ at the time. Key assumptions are approximately two people per net; ITN coverage was approximately 26%.
^b The total median cost of installation of window screens was approximately US $ 25.5 spent on approximately a median of 11 people per house.
^cThe total median cost of installation of ceilings was approximately UD $ 350.5 spent on approximately a median of 11 people per house.

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